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> This provided him with the subject matter for his famous paper Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001). Like Chambers, he divided statistics into two gr
by denzil_correa 7y ago
> This provided him with the subject matter for his famous paper Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001). Like Chambers, he divided statistics into two groups: The data modeling culture (Chambers’s lesser statistics) and the algorithmic modeling culture (Chambers’s greater statistics). He took it one step further, stating that 98% of statisticians were from the former, while only 2% were from the latter.
This paper provides an important distinction for the "Machine Learning is just statistics" remark.
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoSo, the tools of machine learning are the tools of statistics. The uses to which those tools are put are quite different.
- joker3 7y agoIt describes why machine learning was regarded as separate from statistics twenty years ago. The world has moved on.